fact or fiction
Is it a fact or is it merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the lesser known truths in the health and wellness world of Longevity.
The Body Knows the Way: Relearning Ease Through Sensation
For most of my life, I lived from the neck up — thinking, analyzing, managing, explaining. My mind was always busy: evaluating choices, replaying conversations, rehearsing what might come next. It was efficient, yes, but rarely at peace. I carried tension in my shoulders, tightness in my jaw, a subtle restlessness in every breath. I thought if I could just think my way through everything, I’d find freedom. Instead, I found fatigue.
By Victoria Marse2 months ago in Longevity
Stillness in Motion: Finding Balance Within Flow
I used to think stillness meant stopping — halting movement, quieting thought, withdrawing from the noise of living. But over time, I’ve come to see that stillness isn’t the absence of motion; it’s the presence within it. It’s the quiet center that remains steady even as everything else turns. Like the calm eye of a storm or the unmoving axis of a spinning wheel, stillness lives inside flow, not outside it.
By Black Mark2 months ago in Longevity
The Space That Holds Us: Trusting What We Cannot Control
There are days when life feels like a series of small negotiations — trying to make things work, to keep them aligned, to hold it all together. The mind strategizes, adjusts, anticipates, clings. Underneath it all hums a single question: What will happen if I let go?
By Marina Gomez2 months ago in Longevity
Study: Heat Waves May Accelerate Aging as Much as Smoking or Drinking Alcohol.
The planet is heating up faster than ever before. Each summer seems hotter than the last, and deadly heat waves are becoming increasingly common across continents. Beyond the immediate discomfort and health risks, scientists are now uncovering deeper, long-term consequences of this environmental shift. According to a new study, continuous exposure to heat waves may accelerate biological aging — effectively making the body older at the cellular level — to a degree comparable to the effects of smoking or alcohol consumption.
By youssef tnaji2 months ago in Longevity
Listening with the Body: Presence Beyond Thought
There are ways of listening that have nothing to do with the ears. We often think of listening as an act of understanding — of interpreting words, deciphering meaning, forming response. But beneath that level of mind, there’s a subtler kind of listening — one that happens through the body. The skin, the breath, the pulse — they’re all in quiet conversation with the world. When we begin to notice that dialogue, presence deepens into something more whole, more real.
By Marina Gomez2 months ago in Longevity
The Loop
Every morning, Eli woke to the sound of the same alarm — a single, sharp note that sliced through the silence of his small apartment. The same pale light crept through the curtains, brushing across the same walls, the same floor, the same desk where yesterday’s coffee cup still sat.
By Bob manuel2 months ago in Longevity
Still Water Mind: Reflecting Without Grasping
Sometimes, when I sit by a lake at dawn, I think of how much the mind resembles water. When the surface is stirred by wind, it ripples and distorts everything it reflects — sky, trees, clouds, all broken into restless fragments. But when the wind settles, the water doesn’t have to do anything. It doesn’t try to become clear. It simply returns to stillness, and the world appears within it exactly as it is.
By Victoria Marse2 months ago in Longevity
Carrying Silence: How Stillness Moves Through the Day
Silence used to feel like something separate — a place I visited in meditation, a momentary pause between the noise of doing. I would sit on the cushion, close my eyes, and wait for it to arrive, like a secret I could only touch when everything else stopped. But over time, the boundaries between silence and life began to blur. I began to wonder: what if silence isn’t something we enter, but something we carry?
By Black Mark2 months ago in Longevity
Unfinished Moments: Finding Peace in Imperfection
There’s a peculiar ache that comes from wanting things to be finished — the project completed, the house tidy, the conversation resolved, the self somehow perfected. I’ve lived much of my life chasing that sense of completion, the comforting click of everything falling neatly into place. Yet life, it seems, rarely cooperates. Plans change, words go unsaid, days end before we’re ready. Again and again, I find myself standing in the middle of something that refuses to be complete.
By Marina Gomez2 months ago in Longevity
When the Mind Rests: The Art of Inner Listening
There’s a moment in meditation — rare, delicate — when the mind, after so much effort and noise, finally grows quiet. It doesn’t disappear, exactly. It just loosens its grip. Thoughts drift by like clouds instead of storms, and what remains underneath feels vast and alive. In that silence, a different kind of listening begins — not to sound or thought, but to the pulse of awareness itself.
By Jonse Grade3 months ago in Longevity
Resting in Change: When Letting Go Becomes Home
Change has always made me uneasy. Even the small ones — the end of a season, the shift of a daily routine, a friend moving away — used to leave me feeling unmoored, as if something solid beneath me had quietly dissolved. I longed for stability, for something I could hold onto without fear of losing it. But life, with its patient wisdom, kept teaching me the same lesson in a thousand quiet ways: everything moves. Everything changes. And the more tightly I held on, the more life slipped through my grasp.
By Garold One3 months ago in Longevity
Quiet Confidence: The Strength Found in Softness
There was a time when I thought strength had to be loud — that it needed to announce itself in certainty, in speed, in the ability to push through. I admired people who seemed untouchable, self-assured, always moving forward. I wanted that same kind of confidence, the kind that didn’t waver. But the more I tried to build it, the more brittle I became. It was as if I’d built a shell of strength, not realizing how easily shells can crack.
By Victoria Marse3 months ago in Longevity
